The Success Syndicate

Hi I'm Joelle, I'm a 42 yo artist from Montreal. I worked as a food & landscape photographer for the past few years, but I also have a background in finance and worked as a fashion / shoe designer / makeup artist for over a decade prior to that. Lately I've been focusing on experimenting with gen art.

I'm a total nerd and love learning about anything related to physics, neuroscience, psychology, biohacking & nutrition. AMA 😋

Landscape photography / AI art / gen art. building @toveskargard
/photographers /biohacking 

https://linktr.ee/joelleLB

Haha ok I thought it might be a photo trick. I don’t know how to do stuff like that. 

The Amazon story sounds awesome. My boss is big into indigenous hallucinogenic experiences and he’s paid for us to go on retreats to do ayahuasca and ibogaine here in the states. They fly in shamans from south America and Africa to administer and oversee. Super crazy experience. 

So my last question then; did you build the shaman a website? 😂

thank you sm :) 

 1. it's a composite image, there are 4 photos in there. I liked the way it looked when the moon was a lot bigger (you can also create this in a single shot with a zoom lens on supermoon days though with the right distance)

2. in 2010 I went to the Amazon jungle to live with a shaman for a month. I had this idea in my mind of what that experience would look like, but when I got there he had an iPad and asked me to build him a website lol def not what I was expecting 😂 there were also people there rubbing frog poison on their burn wounds to have enlightened experiences while going hunting with indigenous tribes. Life's a bit more boring these days haha

Ok, holy shit - that photo on the right is SOMETHING ELSE! I have always had a weird connection with the moon and man that shit is incredible. 

My questions: 

1.) How is the moon so big? Is it just a trick of perspective? 

2.) What is the strangest thing you’ve encountered during your travels?

thanks! no its a composite image (like a lot of my work, especially astrophotography so the foreground looks more detailed) so there are 4 photos in there.

stunning picture of the moon, is complete unedited? 
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Yeah I was 16 in highschool in 98 and took film photos at underground raves with a camera I was lent in photography class 😅

Digital Media Producer. I like particles and waves too. I like art.

Omg epic!! So this means that you know how to do dark room processing and stuff too right?

I have a question! I think the AMA might’ve ended tho!! I was wondering when you got your first camera!! And if you remember it

Estonian documentary and fine art photographer



creator: /now /portrait /shakti

Happy to get to know you here and to discover your photography ❤️

16 $RARE

wowow...you are so talented...a recipe developer sounds very cool!!! 
you are a buidoooor!!!!  thanks 😍 

100 $degen

I worked freelance, but I was also hired by a restaurant in Banff to make their raw desserts. I started posting my vegan recipes on Instagram back in 2014 and it blew up, so I started getting requests from brands to create recipes with their ingredients and take photos of the results for their socials & websites. I ended up being a recipe developer & food blogger for a few years, it was fun to get paid to eat healthy food haha

been following you for a while...still getting to know more is a plus!! 😍 

have you worked with any food companies for their photos?? or was it independent work?

NFT creator, collector & founder of
/veg the rule defying art channel 
Wutang 🙌🏻

Congrats @joellelb 🫡🤜 well deserved

Pro-Crypto HR Professional and casual trader. Finding my place on this app...

They all look really cool and was always curious how you got that look.

its mostly based on aesthetics tbh, with astrophotography the foregrounds often look super noisy at night so merging the sky with a foreground I shot at blue hour makes it look much better imo. I also like the endless possibilities that offers, I often shoot and am not inspired at all by the single shot.

What lead you to wanting to make composite images?

Thanks for sharing your story and great shot of the moon..

50 $DEGEN

Wowow 😲 what a total badass ! How do you make the time for so many cool & interesting hobbies ??

Hi Joelle! Just intro'd to you today through this. New success member here. 👋 

I was looking at your timeline. Photos are truly amazing. 💜 

My question: Tell us the story of the photo on the right here of the moon.

And tell us the story of the photo maretus used for this AMA the purple rings

Glad I've met you and your work!

Reneecampbell.eth 

Reneecampbell.degen.eth

* https://bio.site/ReneeCampbell 

*  /flora 
* /reneecampbell 

Creator of Worlds

Love this highlight! Don’t have any questions right now, just want photos of food 😁😁
Also… a snack for you 
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Professional photographer and motion creator. Finding serenity and tranquility in ocean art 🌊🐋💎 ⌐🆇-🆇 Host /oceanworld @natgeo published

Landscape Photographer // Desert Rat // ɪɴsᴘɪʀɪɴɢ ʏᴏᴜ ᴛᴏ ᴀᴘᴘʀᴇᴄɪᴀᴛᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴏᴛʜᴇʀᴡᴏʀʟᴅʟʏ ᴘᴀʀᴛs ᴏғ ᴏᴜʀ ᴇᴀʀᴛʜ | https://bio.site/meesh

I just isolate myself for months and go full OCD mode doing 8-10h a day in the learning stage haha idk if that's healthy for everyone but it works for my introverted self 😅 Then once I feel like I'm experienced enough, I'll go back to the more creative side.

Hi Joelle, nice to meet you 
My question is

How do you balance the technical and creative sides of your work (photography and gen art)

Biohacking

nice! we're pretty similar. cron is like my philosophy but pretty lenient with it lol.... but i love eating clean and cooking my own meals. i want to be healthy for as long as possible. 

i've been reading his newsletters and watching his yt videos. i'm so curious about the diet. would love to see the updates!

ah right on! feel free to share your experiments & findings in /biohacking then  :) I got into C.R.O.N about 20 years ago, back then ppl thought I was insane for restricting my calories and labeled me orthorexic lol I think it really paid off when it comes to slowing down aging. 

I also do IR light therapy sessions every morning while meditating, do cold plunges and I'm a total health freak I make all my meals and include a ton of medicinal plants (also studied plant medicine), which I often forage myself to freeze or dehydrate so I can make my own supplements. About to start @bryanjohnson's Blueprint diet & buy his stack we'll see how that goes haha 

hbu?

hey joelle, i'm into biohacking and nutrition too! what kind of things do you do to biohack?

I'm Harry. I love art & memes. I make art & laugh at memes. I learn more & more. I help people & build a community. And I'm not a bot 🤖.

But there'll be someone out there wild like you, with whom you can continue your adventures

I don't think I'm very wife material I'm a bit too wild for that 😂

Hey there @joellelb happy to know about you, can you tell me if you're married or have a relationship? It's kinda personal but you said AMA 😅